Niall Ó Súilleabháin – Medieval Historian

Publications

On this page you will find a full list of my academic publications, along with links (where available). If you are interested in reading any of my publications, but cannot get access, please get in touch via the Contact page.

Monographs

  • Social Elites in Medieval France; Status, wealth and power in the Loire valley, c. 850-1150, Artes Liberales (Manchester; Manchester University Press, 2026).

Articles

  • ‘The Meaning of Miles: Knighthood as Social Signifier in Early Capetian France’, French History 38;4 (2024), pp. 393-404. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/crae041 [Open-Access]
    • Winner of the French History Article Prize 2024.
    • French Translation Forthcoming: ‘Le sens de miles : la chevalerie comme marqueur social aux premiers temps de la France capétienne’, Memini – Travaux et documents 32 (2026).
  • ‘Landholding in the Loire Valley and the Late Carolingian Economy (c. 840 – c. 1000)’, Early Medieval Europe 31;2 (2023), pp. 274-296. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12634 [Open-Access]
  • ‘Enduring Bonds: Social Pressure, Church Reform and Grants of Lay Societas in Central France, c. 950-1150’, Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 51;2 (2022 for 2020), pp. 131-54. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.128751

Book Chapters

  • ‘The Monastic Familia in Northern France as a Coercive Labour Regime, c. 900 – c. 1100 AD’ in Ulbe Bosma, Stephan Conermann and Gijs Kessler (eds), Households as Coercive Labour Regimes Dependency and Slavery Studies 32 (Berlin; De Gruyter, 2026). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112254561 [Open-Access]
  • ‘Ecclesiastical Proprietary Communities and the Restitution of Local Churches in the Loire Valley during the Age of Reform, c. 1050 – c. 1150’ in Tristan Martine (ed.) Communautés déchirées ? Violences et divisions au sein des communautés de l’Occident grégorien (mi XIe-mi XIIe siècles) : entre pratiques et discours (Rennes ; Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2025), pp. 155-64.
  • ‘Mórmaors, Mayors and Merchants; The Early Development of Municipal Government in Dublin’ in Seán Duffy (ed.) Medieval Dublin XIII; Proceedings of the Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposium 2011, (Dublin; Four Courts Press, 2013), pp. 108-15.

Reviews

  • ‘Review of Deborah Kahn, The Politics of Sanctity: Figurative Sculpture at Selles-sur-Cher’, Early Medieval Europe 31;3 (2023), pp. 519-22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12657
  • ‘Review of James Naus, Constructing Kingship; The Capetian Monarchs of France and the Early Crusades’, Reviews in History (review no. 1997; published September 2016). DOI: https://doi.org/10.14296/RiH/2014/1997